TOWN COUNCIL MEEETING
The last Town Council meeting was the inauguration of the newest members voted into office in our last election. This event was done very well and all new members, minus Norma Wells, took their oath of office. Liza Ward was sworn in and took her place on the Town Council.
In a dramatic turn of events, Councilor LaRochelle was voted in as this year’s Chairman of the Town Council. Apparently, puppet master Bowie did not have confidence enough in Pomelow for her to become Chairperson. I totally agree with him since her screw-up with the Council Working Rules and her short temper with residents. However, Bowie did allow her to remain as Vice Chair. Congratulations Fern.
The town received their annual audit presentation and passed with flying colors. Keep in mind this was not a forensic audit. Also the audit team does not review the Economic Community Development Department to ensure individuals receiving loans met the criteria for the type of loan received.
The Ethics Panel Chairman David Bowie gave the panel’s summary of findings and recommendation to the Town Council on whether or not there is a conflict of interest with Bowie. You all know the results and my feelings. No more needs to be said.
The Town Manager, who never provided on the town web site, the topics he was going to discuss. It will be impossible to comply with the Councilor Working Rules if the citizens have no idea what is going to be discussed. Is the new Chair going to force the Town Manager to post his agenda on the town web site or allow the people to address their comments during “Other Business”? We shall see how Chairman LaRochelle will handle this problem.
Finally, there were two Agenda’s posted on the town web site. One was posted on Friday and the other one was posted on Monday. It was amazing because Monday’s agenda did not have “Corrected Copy” on it so if you were not paying close attention one would never realize the changes. A simple act such as putting “Corrected Copy” at the top of the agenda would have eliminated any confusion. Instead of paralegal training, why not send our people for simple administrative procedures training. When can the people expect simple administrative procedures to be followed in this town?
Larry Fillmore
Concerned Citizen
Today Glenn Greenwald, writing for Salon, published a piece which is required reading for anyone who has been keeping up with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Fiscal Year 2012, especially those of us who have been arguing with proponents of the bill and others who do not understand the detainee provisions therein.
Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don't make dramatic changes immediately. If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them. Just "tweaking" things here and there is not going to fix this economy. We truly do need a fundamental change in direction. America is consuming far more wealth than it is producing and our debt is absolutely exploding. If we stay on this current path, an economic collapse is inevitable. Hopefully the crazy economic numbers from 2011 that I have included in this article will be shocking enough to wake some people up.
THE United States Senate Thursday 12/8 approved a defence authorisation bill legalising sodomy with humans and sex with animals or bestiality.
We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face. One of us is a mother, the rest of us fathers. Between the five of us we have 11children and one more baby on the way. We have a combined 46 years of experience driving cargo from our shores for America’s stores.
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year. Actually, that’s a flat out lie. When I was seventeen I was probably wallowing in self-important despair so trivial that now, years later, I can’t even remember if I was wallowing or not. The point I’m getting at here is that I wasn’t doing anything productive, much less anything that could save countless lives and contribute to a field of science that is more important now than it has ever been. That’s what Angela Zhang was doing, and now, she’s $100,000 the richer for it. Also, she can say she’s created a nanoparticle, one that kills cancer, for what that’s worth (Spoiler: It’s worth a lot).
Injecting anti-semitism into a traffic stop didn't work too well for Mel Gibson, and one Queens lawyer who pulled a "reverse Gibson" on a New Jersey state trooper has been suspended from practicing law
11. Dec, 2011
